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2I will be glad and rejoice in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

3My enemies turn back;
they stumble and perish before you.

4For you have upheld my right and my cause;
you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.

5You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

6Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy,
you have uprooted their cities;
even the memory of them has perished.

7The LORD reigns forever;
he has established his throne for judgment.

8He will judge the world in righteousness;
he will govern the peoples with justice.

9The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.

10Those who know your name will trust in you,
for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.

11Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion;
proclaim among the nations what he has done.

12For he who avenges blood remembers;
he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

13O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me!
Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,

14that I may declare your praises
in the gates of the Daughter of Zion
and there rejoice in your salvation.

15The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;
their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

18But the needy will not always be forgotten,
nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.

19Arise, O LORD, let not man triumph;
let the nations be judged in your presence.

20Strike them with terror, O LORD;
let the nations know they are but men.
Selah

2In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
who are caught in the schemes he devises.

3He boasts of the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

4In his pride the wicked does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.

5His ways are always prosperous;
he is haughty and your laws are far from him;
he sneers at all his enemies.

6He says to himself, “Nothing will shake me;
I'll always be happy and never have trouble.”

7His mouth is full of curses and lies and threats;
trouble and evil are under his tongue.

8He lies in wait near the villages;
from ambush he murders the innocent,
watching in secret for his victims.

9He lies in wait like a lion in cover;
he lies in wait to catch the helpless;
he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.

10His victims are crushed, they collapse;
they fall under his strength.

11He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
he covers his face and never sees.”

12Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God.
Do not forget the helpless.

13Why does the wicked man revile God?
Why does he say to himself,
“He won't call me to account”?

14But you, O God, do see trouble and grief;
you consider it to take it in hand.
The victim commits himself to you;
you are the helper of the fatherless.

15Break the arm of the wicked and evil man;
call him to account for his wickedness
that would not be found out.

16The LORD is King for ever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.

17You hear, O LORD, the desire of the afflicted;
you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,

18defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
in order that man, who is of the earth, may terrify no more.